Off the radar

Just wanted to take the time to write a small note about lack of posts of late. As you all know I was working on a great community project '2042: art on the street' so I have take a little time to get back some sleep combined with what has been a very sad time for all of Sydney's art community - I have not felt much like posting. Hopefully will back to full swing in the next couple of weeks but thanks for continuing to read.

Edith Moss
constructingart

Career milestones big and small.

Finally reached over 100 posts! Thanks for all the support and reading what I hope was interesting content over the last couple of years. As you may of noticed constructing art has been increasing its social interaction of late, so please make sure you are following me on twitter.

Speaking of career milestones of obviously slightly larger proportions Edmund Capon AM, OBE has released a book, "I Blame Duchamp" (Penguin Books, 2009) an autobiography which focuses on the collections he has been involved in and his relationship to art 'My musings on art could be described as a benign diatribe; one inspired by a genuine if watchful passion'. I am certainly hoping for some behind the scenes gossip - someone who has been in the role of Director and Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of NSW for so many year must have, this book will do little discourage rumours that Mr Capon may soon be moving on.

(Untitled) movie

ABC launches new arts website

The ABC was all over the arts this week as it launched a new arts website and held the "Revealing the Arts" conference in Sydney. The event included much fanfare about their new social media connectivity and partnership with the Australia Council. The website will a portal for both the arts programs on the ABC as well other arts content from all genres. This seems to be part of a larger push by the Federal Government and the Government 2.0 project to get government organisations to get filter their content through "younger" eyes. Let hope these programs increase creative production and build relationships rather than just present what we already have. That being said they are a lot prettier than previous government websites!

Phantom New York City comes alive.

This amazing new iphone application makes me 1. very happy and 2. at the same time very jealous. Why?

1. It is a remarkably clever idea considering New York must be one of the most redesigned (in theory that is) cities in the world and has had so many projects designed and exhibitions made about this great city just in the last couple of years. Rather than living in the past or the present the application shows user what might have been. Living under a dome or walking in the sky, the designs and projects will be presented as the user walks through the city streets.

2. Why now when I am not in New York?


The iPhone at work, detecting the Phantom City.
Images and research BLDG BLOG.


Museum of the Phantom City by Cheng+Snyder for the Van Alen Institute.
Images and research BLDG BLOG.

Check out http://phantomcity.org/for full project.

Stuff white people like - Bansky!

This is an absolutely hilarious article about Bansky and the complicated relationship "indie white people" have with street art. I was lucky enough to go to a talk with Christian Lander (and have a photo with) the creator of Stuff White People blog and now book. He talked about going to ivy league universities and experiencing a certain type of white person obsessed with coffee, indie music no one has ever heard of. This of course hit a chord with me with my personal favourites being Architecture, Liking Bob Marley and Taking a year off.


Also hope are checking out my current project and the behind the scenes photo:
2042artonthest.blogspot.com

2042: art on the street

I am so happy to let you guys know that a project I am working on is starting to ramp up. 2042: art on the street is a community artwork in Newtown where for one weekend (24-25 October) you will see the heart of Newtown turned into a giant 3-dimensional colouring book just waiting to be coloured by you and filled with your stories. Please visit the 2042 website for more information and I hope you will all join me on this adventure for the next couple of weeks. (I will also be cross-posting so you will be kept up to date on both blogs).